112 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Genus COPIDOSOMA Ratzeburg. 
i. COPIDOSOMA COMPRESSIVENTRIS new species.* 
Female :—Length, 1.35 mm., excluding ovipositor which is extruded for a length nearly 
equal to that of the abdomen. 
Dark metallic coppery green, the wings hyaline; tarsi pale. Body polygonally scaly. 
Venation dusky the marginal vein punctiform, the postmarginal a little longer, the stigmal of 
normal length, thrice the length of the postmarginal. Cilia proximad of hairless line arranged 
in about seven lines. Mandibles brownish, rather slender, with equal acute teeth. Seape long, 
tapering distad, nearly as long as the funicle; pedicel a half longer than wide at apex, longer 
than any of the funicle joints which are subequal and somewhat longer than wide (but 6 a 
little shorter and wider than 1). Club long, a little wider than the funicle and about nearly 
two thirds its length, the third joint longest; obtuse at apex. Head triangular, longer than 
wide, the scrobes long and rather deep, the frons moderate in width, not prominent, the cheeks 
about as long as the eyes. Tarsal joints not long; hind tibial spur single, slender, not especially 
long. Abdomen curved upward toward apex and compressed strongly distad, the hypopygium 
prominent. Club 1 longer than funicle 6. Last two pairs of knees pale. Axille rather narrow, 
distinctly a little separated. Scutum with inclined, scattered pubescence. Pronotum not visible 
from dorsal aspect. Fore wings with fine discal ciliation, about 40 lines where broadest 
(proximad of mid-distance between apex of blade and apex of venation). 
From one female caught in forest, March, 1914 (A. P. Dodd). 
Habitat: Cooktown, Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 3038, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, a female on a tag; head, fore legs, 
caudal tibie# and a fore wing with slide type of Cerchysiella wmbilicata Girault. 
GreNuS APHYCUS Mayr. 
1. APHYCUS SANGUINITHORAX new species. Differs from the genotype in the venation. 
Female :—Length, 0.60 mm. 
Blood red, the legs, mesopleurum, ventral third of scape, distal third of pedicel, proximal 
half of mandibles, funicle and proximal third of abdomen, silvery white; club black; abdomen 
otherwise brown; scape and pedicel otherwise dusky; first three funicle joints tinged with 
dusky. Head pinkish suffused with yellow. Fore wing with a sooty stripe across them from 
the marginal and stigmal veins and beyond them for a distance equal to those veins, this stripe 
abruptly cut off distad of venation, thus not reaching the cephalic margin. Marginal vein one 
and three fourth times longer than wide, subequal to the stigmal, the postmarginal present but 
very short. Discal cilia of fore wing very fine and dense, the hairless line narrow. Pedicel 
distinctly longer than any of the short funicle joints of which 1-4 are globular or moniliform, 
5 wider than long, 6 still wider, longest; club distinctly wider and nearly as long as the 
funicle. Mandibles small, with three minute teeth at apex. Frons moderately narrow, face 
inflexed, the cheeks not as long as the eyes. Thorax with distinct, short, silvery pubescence 
against the red background, densely scaly, the axille joined or nearly, the surface densely. 
finely scaly. 
From one female taken by sweeping grass in forest, April 6, 1914. 
Habitat: Gordonvale (Cairns), Queensland. 
Type: No. Hy 8039, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, the specimen on a tag; head and 
part of fore wing on a slide. 
A second female, same place, June 8, 1914. 
* A species similar to this (at least in form; not critically examined) was very common in the 
grass of parks, meadows and so on in late October at Muswellbrook, New South Wales. 
